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Editor's note: "DP Buzz is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short answer....

— As the daughter of a U.S. president, Susan Ford Bales belongs to an exclusive club. She will join another one Saturday at Newport News Shipbuilding.
Not everyone can say they've got a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the family.
Ford Bales, who...

If it could talk, the climate-monitoring instrument CERES might file a complaint.Working nonstop, it orbits Earth 14 times a day taking millions of images that scientists will use to expand their knowledge of why the planet is warming.“It’s a lot of...

Hoping to turn the page on what has been a disappointing year for earth science, NASA will launch a $1.5 billion satellite that aims to improve scientists’ knowledge of Earth’s climate.The NPOESS Preparatory Project, scheduled for liftoff early Friday...

A lawyer for a former junior partner suing a venture capital firm in a Silicon Valley sex bias suit contended Tuesday that his client was passed over for promotions because she was a woman and then fired after she complained. In his opening trial...

A jury was picked Monday to determine whether a venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firm is liable in a sexual discrimination lawsuit or is the victim of a former employee forced out because of poor performance. The lawsuit filed by Ellen Pao, 45,...

JERUSALEM Israeli advertising entrepreneur Nimrod Dweck was no stranger to marketing when he started Victory 2015 (V15), a campaign to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections March 17. Yet Dweck turned elsewhere for what he...

With a measure of anniversary hoopla perhaps exceeded only by the nation's bicentennial, "Saturday Night Live" celebrated its 40th season on Sunday with a 3½-hour gala of stars, laughs and memories. It aired live from New York's Studio 8H...

WASHINGTON Courting political power brokers at a recent closed-door meeting, Jeb Bush included one unlikely face. There among big names from the worlds of lobbying, fundraising and politics was one leader of a labor union, Harold Schaitberger,...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Wednesday into a clear sky colored by a setting sun, sending a satellite into space to monitor solar storms that can wreak havoc on Earth's power and communication systems.
The 6:03 p.m....

In a story Feb. 11 about the launch of a space observatory, The Associated Press reported erroneously where the booster rocket landed in the ocean. SpaceX chief Elon Musk said via Twitter that the rocket landed within 10 meters of the target, not 10...

Dangerously high winds kept a deep-space observatory grounded Tuesday and put off a radically new landing test of the booster rocket. SpaceX called off its sunset launch with just 12 minutes remaining in the countdown because of gusts of 115 mph several...

SpaceX is taking another stab Tuesday at launching an observatory into deep space and landing the rocket booster that carries it up.
The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket was set to blast off at sunset, with the ground-breaking ocean landing of the leftover...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is among the winners of this year's Dan David Prize for scientific, technological and cultural accomplishments. The Dan David Foundation awards three $1 million prizes annually in three categories: past, present and future....

A deep-space observatory has to wait yet another day before flying. SpaceX called off Sunday evening's launch attempt because of trouble with the Air Force rocket-tracking radar. The company targeted Monday, but decided to wait until Tuesday for better...

A space weather satellite is poised to blast off Sunday for a destination 1 million miles away, but it's the rocket's ocean landing that is stealing the spotlight.
The SpaceX company will take a second stab at landing a booster on a platform floating off...

Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala was as white-hot as usual: A-Listers from Taylor Swift to Jamie Foxx were in the audience, and performances ranged from chart-topping singers to old school icons. Davis even claimed his event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel...

SpaceX called off Sunday's planned launch of a deep-space observatory — and a revolutionary rocket-landing attempt — after a critical radar-tracking system failed. Former Vice President Al Gore, who first envisioned the observatory two decades ago, was on...

Aloe Blacc raised the spirits of attendees at a pre-Grammy concert that celebrated giving back. The singer, whose album "Lift Your Spirit" is up for best R&B album at this year's ceremony, was among more than a dozen performers Thursday...

For years, President Obama had a singular problem: convincing Americans who were not feeling the economic recovery that it was real and a cause for optimism, not to mention for electing fellow Democrats.
Now Republicans seeking to capture the White House...